nganthari

Martuthunira

Etymology

From Proto-Pama-Nyungan *ngañcar (“tongue”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ŋan̪t̪aɻi/

Noun

nganthari

tooth
sharp

Synonyms

(tooth) yirra

References

Barry Alpher Proto-Pama-Nyungan etyma, in Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method, edited by Claire Bowern and Harold Koch (Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004)
Dench, Alan Charles. 1995. Martuthunira: A Language of the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. Series C-125.

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